This was Sunday’s sun – December 9, 2018 – as seen on the The Sun Now page of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Notice … no sunspots. It is thought that the current sunspot cycle – cycle 24 –...

We can't count on waning solar activity to help bail us out of our climate-change problem in the near future, a new study suggests. Solar activity waxes and wanes on 11-year cycles, which scientists...

In this week's Strange News Snapshot, we discuss a new Atlantis theory, the antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in the International Space Station's toilets and the plimp airship — a cross between a...

Until now, scientists didn't know for sure where most of the stuff around us came from. Now, they do. Silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), is just about the most abundant thing here on the outer shell...

(CNN)Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere. The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale...

Scientists have proposed a new method to fight global warming: sun-dimming aerosols released into earth’s atmosphere. Research from scientists at Harvard and Yale universities was recently published...

The project, if it is launched, could take up to 15 years to complete. Dr Gernot Wagner, from Harvard University‘s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-author of the study published in...

Until now, scientists didn't know for sure where most of the stuff around us came from. Now, they do. Silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), is just about the most abundant thing here on the outer shell...

Monday evening (Nov. 19), National Geographic will air a 1-hour special about Parker Solar Probe, the record-breaking mission currently slinging around the sun. The probe survived its first flyby of...